Dear Pennies & Pens, As you may or may not know, style icon Daphne Guinness recently partnered with Dr. Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT to co-curate an exhibition featuring clothing and accessories owned by Daphne. Additionally, the exhibition features films, videos, and images of Daphne. The exhibition is completely focused on Daphne […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, It’s Pen here to report on the NOMIA S/S 2012 NYFW show. NOMIA is an NYC based label by fashion designer, Yara Flinn. I covered NOMIA last season on de la Pen here. Since then, I am pleased to announce that Yara has grown her line being that she went from showing at […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, It’s Pen here to report on the Daisy Fuentes Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Daisy Fuentes started her line in 2004 and being that she believes that fashion is for everyone, she has partnered exclusively with Kohl’s. In essence, Daisy is providing women with chic, affordable clothes. This season’s show was held in […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, It’s Pen here to report on Zang Toi’s Spring/Summer 2012 runway show. Zang Toi is another previous de la Pen, NYFW feature. For this season, Zang called the collection: “My Dream of North Africa” since he was inspired by the northern part of one of the most historical continents. The collection was beautiful as […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, It’s Pen here to report on the Perry Ellis Spring/Summer 2012 runway show. I covered Perry Ellis last season for F/W 2011, so I was excited to see what the brand would produce this season. Although, John Crocco the Creative Director is leaving the brand, he still designed a smooth, wearable, streamlined collection. […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, My September 11th started with reading tweets of folks’ 9/11 memories and attending the Lela Rose Spring/Summer 2012 show. In fact, Lela began the show with a moment of silence to give bloggers, editors, and show attendees a moment to think about those lost in the tragedy. The collection was completely contrary to […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, First off, sorry for the delay in writing! Things have been hectic but I’ll discuss that in another post. Moving right along, during NYFW, I got a chance to attend Christian Siriano’s show for the first time. I must admit I was super excited to be attending as I’ve been trying to […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, On Saturday, I attended the Kaelen Presentation held at Drive-In Studios in Chelsea NYC. Kaelen is the namesake label of fashion designer, Kaelen Farncombe who hails from Toronto, Canada. Kaelen was only started in 2010, however, the label has been receiving lots of love amongst critics being that the line was […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, Early this past Saturday, I attended the Ruffian show held at Lincoln Center. Ruffian is a New York based designer label and its chief designers are Brian Wolk and Claude Morais. The designers have achieved critical acclaim in addition to being the previous winners of the Fashion Group International’s rising star award. […]

Dear Pennies & Pens, On Thursday, I attended Tadashi Shoji’s Spring/Summer 2012 show. Tadashi Shoji is a Japanese designer who has been showing at New York Fashion since 2007. Tadashi has two boutiques here in the US and is also sold in Neiman Marcus, Saks, Bloomingdale’s. He also has celebrity clients including Beyonce, Queen Latifah, Helen […]